The blog’s online. Finally. Moving to WordPress didn’t work out as planned. Parts of the website are still under construction but I’m moving on anyway ’cause I’ve been itching to write some blogposts for quite a while. By the way, is it ok to post recipes that failed? Well, I’m doing it today. For one thing others might learn from my mistakes, and for another thing everybody fails now and then. Oh, and in the end this ugly cherry pie tasted really good. That should be reason enough, or not?

Knead butter, flour, confectioner’s sugar and 2-3 tbsp of water into a dough. Put it into the fridge for 30 minutes. Drain the cherries and collect the juice. Roll out half of the dough into a circle (26 cm) on a worktop covered with flour.

Put the dough into a greased cake-pan (24 cm), press the edges down. Prick the dough several times with a fork, put it into a fridge for another 30 minutes. Preheat the oven to 2oo degrees. Bake the cake base for 15 minutes.

Mix custard powder and sugar. Add 100 ml cherry juice. Cook up the rest of the juice, stir in custard powder. Let it cook for 1 minute while stirring, add the cherries. Let it cool down for 10 minutes and spread it on the dough.

Roll out the rest of the dough into a circle (24 cm) and put it onto the cherries. See, this is where I always fail. What’s the trick? My dough just keeps falling apart. If yours doesn’t, cut a small pattern in the center of the dough. Bake the pie for another 15 minutes. Serve immediately.

You didn’t miss anything in my life. My immune system has crashed completely, I welcome each bacteria and virus I come across. Since I’ve started my new job I’ve been constantly ill. Nice first impression, right? My my current cold is coming to an end and I’m already in a festive mood. I’m working on advent calenders and wreaths and I can’t decide what to bake next. Do you feel the same way?